Laurence Sterne

The Reverend Laurence Sterne
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760
Born	(1713-11-24)24 November 1713 Clonmel, Ireland
Died	18 March 1768(1768-03-18) (aged 54) London, England
Occupation	Novelist, clergyman
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge
Notable works	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy A Political Romance
Spouse	Elizabeth Lumley

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. He also published many sermons and memoirs. Many people in his family were in the military. Because of this, he traveled in Ireland and England. One of his uncles paid for Sterne to go to the Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He went to Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship. In that college, he got bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1741, he married Elizabeth Lumley.

His satire A Political Romance made the church angry. The book was burnt. Sterne had tuberculosis, so he moved to France. He wrote about his travels to France in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. This book was published a few weeks before he died. He also wrote Journal to Eliza, which was about his romantic feelings for Eliza Draper. This was published after he died. Sterne died in 1768 and was buried at St George's, Hanover Square. His body was stolen and sold to anatomists at Cambridge University. His body was then found and brought back.

Books

• 1743 – The Unknown World: Verses Occasioned by Hearing a Pass-Bell (disputed, possibly written by Hubert Stogdon)
• 1747 – The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath
• 1750 – The Abuses of Conscience
• 1759 – A Political Romance
• 1759 – Tristram Shandy vols. 1 and 2
• 1760 – The Sermons of Mr. Yorick vol. 1 and 2
• 1761 – Tristram Shandy vols. 3–6
• 1765 – Tristram Shandy vols. 7 and 8
• 1766 – The Sermons of Mr. Yorick vols. 3 and 4
• 1767 – Tristram Shandy vol. 9
• 1768 – A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
• 1769 – Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne vols. 5–7 (a continuation of The Sermons of Mr. Yorick)

References

• Barbosa, Maria José Somerlate (May 1992). "Sterne and Machado: Parodic and Intertextual Play in 'Tristram Shandy' and 'Memórias'". The Comparatist. 16: 24–48. doi:10.1353/com.1992.0014. JSTOR 44366842. S2CID 201767984.
• Cash, Arthur H. (1975). Laurence Sterne: The Early & Middle Years. London: Methuen & Co. ISBN 041682210X.
• Clare, David (2016). "Under-regarded Roots: The Irish References in Sterne's Tristram Shandy". The Irish Review. 52 (1): 15–26. ISBN 9781782050629.
• Cross, Wilbur L. (1909). The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne. New York: The Macmillan Company. p. 53. Retrieved 10 February 2020. Laurence Sterne Stillington Rev. Richard Levett.
• Descargues-Grant, Madeleine (2006). "The Obstetrics of Tristram Shandy". Études anglaises. 59 (4): 401–413. doi:10.3917/etan.594.0401.
• de Voogd, Peter; Neubauer, John, eds. (2004). The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe. London: Thoemmes Continuum. ISBN 0826461344. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
• Gratchev, Slav N.; Mancing, Howard, eds. (2019). Viktor Shklovsky's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy. Lanham: Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498597937. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
• Havard, John Owen (Summer 2014). "Arbitrary Government: "Tristram Shandy" and the Crisis of Whig History". ELH. 81 (2): 585–613. doi:10.1353/elh.2014.0015. JSTOR 24475634. S2CID 154424358.
• Howes, Alan B., ed. (1971). Laurence Sterne: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415134250. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
• Jefferson, D.W. (July 1951). "Tristram Shandy and the Tradition of Learned Wit". Essays in Criticism. I (3): 225–248. doi:10.1093/eic/I.3.225. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
• Keymer, Thomas (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521849722.
• Keymer, Thomas (2002). Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199245924.
• King, Ross (Summer 1995). ""Tristram Shandy" and the Wound of Language". Studies in Philosophy. 92 (3): 291–310. JSTOR 4174520.
• Large, Duncan (2017). "'Lorenz Sterne' among German philosophers: reception and influence" (PDF). Textual Practice. 31 (2): 283–297. doi:10.1080/0950236X.2016.1228847. S2CID 171978531.
• Loftis, Sonya Freeman; Kellar, Allison; Ulevich, Lisa, eds. (2018). Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781315265537. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
• New, Melvyn (October 1972). "Sterne's Rabelaisian Fragment: A Text from the Holograph Manuscript". PMLA. 87 (5): 1083–1092. doi:10.2307/461185. JSTOR 461185. S2CID 163743375.
• Pfister, Manfred (2001). Laurence Sterne. Devon: Northcote House Publishers. ISBN 074630837X.
• Pierce, David; de Voogd, Peter, eds. (1996). Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 9042000023. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
• Ross, Ian Campbell (2001). Laurence Sterne: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192122355.
• Sichel, Walter (1971). Sterne: A Study. New York: Haskell House Publishers. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
• Vapereau, Gustave (1876). Dictionnaire universal des littératures. Paris: Librairie Hachette. p. 1915. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
• Venn, John; Venn, J.A., eds. (1927). Alumni Cantabrigienses. London: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
• Viviès, Jean (1994). "A Sentimental Journey, or Reading Rewarded" (PDF). Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. 38. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
• Washington, Ellis (2017). The Progressive Revolution: History of Liberal Fascism through the Ages. Lanham: Hamilton Books. ISBN 9780761868507. Retrieved 26 February 2020.

Further reading

• René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators (Amsterdam, 2007)
• W. M. Thackeray, in English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1853; new edition, New York, 1911)
• Percy Fitzgerald, Life of Laurence Sterne (London, 1864; second edition, London, 1896)
• Paul Stapfer, Laurence Sterne, sa personne et ses ouvrages (second edition, Paris, 1882)
• H. D. Traill, Laurence Sterne, "English Men of Letters", (London, 1882)
• H. D. Traill. "Sterne". Harper & Brothers Publishers. Retrieved 22 March 2018 – via Internet Archive.
• Texte, Rousseau et le cosmopolitisme littôraire au XVIIIème siècle (Paris, 1895)
• H. W. Thayer, Laurence Sterne in Germany (New York, 1905)
• P. E. More, Shelburne Essays (third series, New York, 1905)
• L. S. Benjamin, Life and Letters (two volumes, 1912)
• Rousseau, George S. (2004). Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-3454-1

Other websites

• Works by Laurence Sterne at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Laurence Sterne at Internet Archive
• Works by Laurence Sterne at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Tristram Shandy (beta) In Our Time – BBC Radio 4
• Laurence Sterne at the Google Books Search
• Laurence Sterne at Curlie
• "Tristram Shandy". Annotated, with bibliography, criticism.
• Ron Schuler's Parlour Tricks: The Scrapbook Mind of Laurence Sterne
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy & A Sentimental Journey. Munich: Edited by Günter Jürgensmeier, 2005
• The Shandean: A Journal Devoted to the Works of Laurence Sterne (tables of contents available online) Archived 2022-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Laurence Sterne at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• The Laurence Sterne Trust
• Laurence Sterne at Library of Congress Authorities, with 182 catalogue records
• Anonymous parodies of the kinds of letters written by Elizabeth Draper to Laurence Sterne (as Yorick), MSS SC 4, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University